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Automatically? Haven't sorted that out as CIFS shares need the user to authenticate. A credentials file would be needed and that isn't an option. A work around would be if their home directory is on a SAN that supports NFS, too.

A solution for unpriviledged users mounting in RHEL6 is to add them to the 'fuse' group and use fusermount with AutoFS. (Under Gnome, the gvfs-mount front-end.). (Check out my previous question history on GVFS.)

pmount allows users to mount filesystems without root access or an /etc/fstab entry. It is available in the EPEL repository. I don't think it's a complete solution for you, but it may get you at least part of the way there.